Gargantua
Americannoun
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an amiable giant and king, noted for his enormous capacity for food and drink, in Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel.
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(italics) a satirical novel (1534) by Rabelais.
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These include Thurman Sensing, the conservative who had written about Gargantua.
From Slate • Nov. 22, 2021
Gargantua olives, he joked, came one per can.
From Washington Post • Oct. 9, 2019
The series is called Gargantua and dinners are served every Thursday through Saturday.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 13, 2017
Surely Don Quixote or Moby Dick or Gargantua and Pantagruel would all be classed as postmodern novels, but they were written in the 17th, 19th and 16th centuries respectively – so what’s going on there?
From Salon • Aug. 20, 2012
The venerable Messire Francis Rabelais composed over the bottle the acts and jests of Gargantua, and his son Pantagruel, a work which gained him such great reputation.
From Ebrietatis Encomium or, the Praise of Drunkenness by Samber, Robert
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